SOME 600 elephants from Mozambique have trooped into a Malawi national park, doubling the elephant population. Aggrey Dzimbiri, manager of Liwonde national park in southern Machinga district, bordering Mozambique, said he suspects the elephants were fleeing from Mozambique because the vegetation there had been destroyed by the recent floods. Dzimbiri, who looks after the 538-square-kilometre […]
THE country’s mining fatalities and injuries fell sharply in 1999 as mine safety legislation took effect, the Chamber of Mines said on Wednesday. Only one accident was reported in 1999, when 19 miners were killed at the Mponeng Mine in an underground gas explosion, compared with an average of over eight major accidents a year […]
SOUTH African pet lovers have started an air bridge for cats and dogs caught up in the violence in neighbouring Zimbabwe. Spurred by television footage in April of farm pets being beaten to death or maimed by war veterans invading white-owned farms, the Johannesburg-based Wet Nose Animal Rescue Centre stepped in. The centre’s spokeswoman, Elmine […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 1.45pm. SACKED South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje told the King Commission into match-fixing that former Indian captain Mohammed Azharuddin introduced him to a bookmaker who offered him money for losing a Test in 1996. Cronje said Azharuddin arranged a meeting with the bookmaker known as MK in at […]
FORMER Indian captain Mohammad Azharuddin has denied claims by Hansie Cronje that he introduced the disgraced South African skipper to a bookie who offered money to throw a 1996 Test match. “It’s all rubbish. Cronje has no credibilty left with him. I don’t know the person he is talking about,” Azharuddin said. “I will be […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Thursday 11.00am. DISGRACED cricket captain Hansie Cronje has admitted he was first approached by bookmakers in 1995 and took his first cash payment on the tour to India in 1996, but denied he ever threw a match or influenced the outcome. A humble Cronje dropped numerous bombshells admitting that during […]
FORMER two-time junior lightweight world champion Brian Mitchell has moved up in weight and will be taking on former heavyweight world title contender Pierre Coetzer on Friday. Most pundits give Mitchell the edge of pulling off a win over the bigger and heavier Coetzer. The two popular ex-boxers will however not be donning gloves for […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 5.00pm. THE Springboks will be without the services of prop Cobus Visagie when they take on England in the first of two Tests at Loftus in Pretoria on Saturday. Visagie is carrying a rib cartilage injury and has been sidelined to avoid aggravating the injury. Sarfu media liason Alex […]
WORLD Cup qualifiers being played in Africa this weekend. Group A At Luanda: Angola v Zambia At Tripoli: Libya v Cameroon Bye: Togo Group B At Lagos: Nigeria v Sierra Leone At Omdurman: Sudan v Liberia Bye: Ghana Group C At Annaba: Algeria v Senegal At Windhoek: Namibia v Morocco Bye: Egypt Group D At […]
The dominance of black athletes is one of the most explosive issues in modern sport. Everyone is aware of it, but no one mentions it. Now, a controversial new book attempts to wrestle with the most taboo subject in world sport Andrew Anthony At the Olympics in September there will be few racing certainties. The […]